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News tagged 'Health'

Pandemic claims health worker

Sep 1, 2020

JANAKPURDHAM, AUGUST 31 A health worker of Mahottari’s Balawa Municipality diagnosed with COVID-19 had succumbed to the disease on Wednesday, the health ministry revealed today. The 37-year-old man, who had completed the health assistant course and used to run a medical store in Balawa bazaar, breathed his last on the way to Kathmandu-based ...

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More people prone to mental health issues due to COVID fear

Sep 1, 2020

KATHMANDU, AUGUST 31 Psychiatrists have warned that the country might see an unaccounted rise in the number of people suffering from psychological stress and other mental health issues due to the increasing fear of COVID-19 spread and months-long lockdown imposed in a bid to subdue the virus. Psychiatrist Dr Sagun Panta at Tribhuvan Universityâ€...

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Sudurpaschim health care inadequate to cope with COVID-19

Aug 31, 2020

MAHENDRANAGAR/DARCHULA, AUGUST 30 Heath care service in Sudurpaschim Province is pathetic and the province lacks basic health facilities. Health care has deteriorated at a time when the entire country is battling the COVID-19 pandemic. The hilly districts — Bajura and Doti have neither ICU service nor ventilators nor health workers and medic...

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Nepal Covid-19 Update: 1221 new cases, 267 discharges, 14 deaths reported Sunday

Aug 30, 2020

KATHMANDU: Ministry of Health and Population, in its regular press briefing, shared the latest updates on coronavirus infection from across the country. As of today, 682,343 tests through Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) method have been carried out wherein 12,717 samples were tested in the last 24 hours. At present, there are 7,797 people under ...

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Be like Jimin. Wear a face mask: WHO’s social media chief praises BTS member for doing so!

Aug 30, 2020

KATHMANDU: BTS’s Jimin has earned plaudits from the Head of Social Media and Media Monitoring of the World Health Organisation for wearing a face mask during dance practice. Allkpop reports that on August 29, Sari Setiogi Griberg, WHO’s Head of Social Media and Media Monitoring at WHO Headquarters in Geneva, posted praise for Jimin for ...

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Health experts decry Trump’s shunning of virus rules

Aug 29, 2020

WASHINGTON: Public health experts expressed concern Friday about President Donald Trump’s largely mask-free, socially un-distanced Republican convention event on the White House lawn, saying some of his 1,500 guests may have inadvertently brought and spread the coronavirus to others. “There almost certainly were individuals there who we...

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MoALD issues guideline for import, distribution of fertilisers

Aug 27, 2020

KATHMANDU: To address the increasing threat of COVID-19 in the country, the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development (MoALD) has published a guideline for import and distribution of fertilisers. The MoALD has directed Agriculture Input Company Ltd (AICL) and Salt Trading Corporation (STC) along with divisional offices working under them to...

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‘COVID-19 affects mental health of journalists’

Aug 22, 2020

KATHMANDU, AUGUST 21 The findings of a national survey undertaken by Nepal Press Institute and Bournemouth University of the United Kingdom paint a gloomy picture of working journalists, hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the report titled ‘Impact of COVID-19 on Journalism in Nepal’, released by Minister of Communication a...

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WHO chief hopes coronavirus pandemic will last less than two years

Aug 22, 2020

GENEVA: The World Health Organization hopes the coronavirus pandemic will be shorter than the 1918 Spanish flu and last less than two years, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday, if the world unites and succeeds in finding a vaccine. The WHO has always been cautious about giving estimates on how quickly the pandemic can b...

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Only symptomatic COVID-19 patients to be admitted at designated hospitals

Aug 21, 2020

KATHMANDU: The government has decided that Covid-19 treatment designated hospitals will only admit patients symptomatic of the disease. The cabinet on Thursday has taken the decision due to of insufficiency of beds at the designated hospitals following the sharp spike in the number of coronavirus infection cases. As per the decision, those who test...

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